Life Transitions Counseling for Clarity, Confidence & Emotional Well-Being

Supporting you through life’s toughest changes—one step at a time. Offices in Culver City conveniently serving Playa Vista, Venice, Marina del Rey, and Manhattan Beach

Areas of Speciality

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How Do I Help With Life Transition

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A specialty of mine is helping individuals feeling stress, anxiety, or emotionally overwhelmed navigate major life changes. Using a warm, collaborative, and strength based approach, I offer a safe, compassionate space to explore your emotions, develop new coping tools, and access your inner resilience.

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  • I use a combination of talk therapy and evidence based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Informed Therapy, Solution Focused Strategies, as well as Emotional Regulation and Grounding Tools.

  • You will learn how to manage stress, regulate emotions, build resilience, and move toward a life aligned with your values and goals.

  • While I have worked with many life changes, some that I have often helped people with include: relationship changes, natural events such as fires, accidents, and floods, grief and loss, family transitions, aging, career transitions, health and wellness, and midlife transitions and burnout.

Ready to feel grounded and supported during your life transition?

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Frequently Asked Questions about Therapy for Life Transitions

  • Traditional therapy focuses on long-term emotional patterns while life-transition counseling is more situational, goal-oriented, and focused on helping you adapt to a specific change or stage of life effectively.

  • You might benefit if you’re experiencing: Persistent worry or stress, trouble making decisions, feeling stuck or uncertain, having difficulty coping on your own, or experiencing a loss of motivation or changes in your sleep or mood.

  • Depending on your needs, I will use a combination of: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and grounding techniques, Strength-based approaches, talk therapy, or Emotional focused strategies.

Still have questions? Please reach out, I’m here to help.

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